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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 2000337, member: 51&quot;]I suppose these could have gone under &quot;Antiques&quot; but picked this forum, hope that&#039;s okay.</p><p><br /></p><p>1890s, 1900s bicycle advertising pins badges. I had shown these under &quot;finds&quot; a few months back, but discovered something special about one just yesterday as I was getting ready to list.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pin with the felt behind it&nbsp; (was thinking former owner just used that fabric as display) turns out that felt has a purpose!&nbsp; Side of the pin reads, &quot;<u>Penwiper</u> Whitehead and Hoag Co...&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Searched &quot;Penwiper Whitehead and Hoag Co&quot; (and even just &quot;Penwiper&quot;) on Ebay, nothing.&nbsp; But online found that it was popular late 1800s, early 1900s to have advertising pins with 3 layers of felt as backing, and you could clean your fountain pen nib on them!</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine just has the one layer remaining, but hopefully this extra feature will add to interest. [ATTACH=full]247902[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247905[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, got a big reflection on the back of the penwiper:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]247906[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It was just luck of the draw I got these.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even know most were for bicycles, assumed the tires and brakes were something else.&nbsp; And I&#039;m a big fan of bicycles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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